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Call for Abstracts: Innovation & Outcomes in Simulation

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Share how your work is driving real outcomes through simulation. Join us during simulation Week for a focused HPSN event highlighting innovation and measurable impact across healthcare.


Simulation Week: September 16-18th, 2026

We’re inviting innovators, educators, and leaders to submit abstract that showcase how you are using simulation to improve outcomes – whether through new programs, products, or system-level initiatives.

Submit Your Abstract

Showcase Innovation That Drives Real Outcomes

We invite abstracts that showcase how you are advancing innovation and outcomes through simulation. Submit an abstract that describes your innovation involving simulation—whether it is an educational program, a product innovation, or a strategic initiative you are using to design, test, or scale changes in care. Your submission should clearly outline what you are innovating and the outcomes you are achieving or targeting in learners, patients, teams, systems, or populations.

Share your work on simulation‑based innovations that move the needle on outcomes such as safety, quality, efficiency, experience, and equity.

Key Dates

All abstracts must be submitted by

June 1, 2026

Required Abstract Submission Content

All abstracts must be 300 words or less and follow the structure outlined below.

Your submission should clearly and concisely reflect what you plant to present, and liagn with the conference theme – Innovation & Outcomes – along with the audience. We recommend submmitting work that includes completed projects with results and conclusions, or at the minimum, strong preliminary finding.

To be considered, your abstract must include:

  • Problem statement or hypothesis, as appropriate
  • Importance to simulation professionals and healthcare leaders
  • Why this innovation or change was needed (e.g., gap in outcomes, system performance, learner preparedness)

  • Materials or methodology (simulation modality, tools, platform, product, setting, participants)
  • Key steps in implementation
  • Barriers to implementation and how obstacles were addressed

  • Major accomplishments of the program, product, or initiative
  • Qualitative and/or quantitative data (where available)
  • Evidence‑based results and impact on staff, learners, patients, families, systems, and/or populations
  • Implications for healthcare practice, operations, or education

Abstract Submission Form

The title must clearly reflect the content of your work, emphasizing innovation and outcomes.
Provide a short description(2-3 sentences) of your presentation that will be posted for participants to view. This should help attendees quickly understand what your session or poster is about and why it is relevant.
A learning outcome is a learner focused statement describing what participants will be able to do by the end of the educational activity.

Include no more than one learning outcome/objective.

The outcome must be measurable and clearly support the presentation title.
Submit a narrative summary of your presentation. The abstract is used by reviewers to evaluate: • Your approach to the topic • Your understanding of the current state of practice and science • The level of refinement and readiness of the work for presentation

Presentor and Author Information

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If your abstract is accepted, abstract presenters must register to attend the entire conference. Registration details will be provided with acceptance notifications.
All presenters must complete a COI disclosure form.
Presentations must avoid any semblance of commercialism. Promotion and advertising of any kind are prohibited. Product names may be referenced only as needed to describe the educational, strategic, or improvement work, not as marketing.
By submitting an abstract and accepting an invitation to present at the conference, authors and presenters acknowledge that, if the abstract is selected: • All authors and presenters give permission for [Conference Name]/[Company Name] to record and publish any audio or video of the presentation. • Authors and presenters understand and consent to photographs being taken onsite at the conference for future advertising and promotional purposes (including print, web, and social media). You may be asked to sign a brief acknowledgement as part of the acceptance process.